The Core at the Center of It All…Channel Data Manager
Channel Data Manager is the core of our on-demand software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions that dramatically transform your view of your business and your sales channel. Channel Data Manager gives you the information you need to optimize your channel finance, operations, sales, and marketing processes, to increase revenue and reduce costs.
Channel Data Manager begins by collecting your channel sales and inventory data from your resellers and distributors. Using our patented geo-plausibility engine we cleanse and identify, we further enrich your data—adding details about your end customers and channel partners as well as firmographic information gathered from third-party databases, like Dunn & Bradstreet.
InfoNow has created the industry’s most complete, patented and proven 5-step process to deliver unparalleled performance optimization insights.
The process consists of the following five steps that are critical to effectively managing your sales channel:
- 1. Collect
- Our data-collection specialists monitor the automatic collection of your sales and inventory data from your channel partners on a regular and timely basis.
- 2. Identify
- With the raw data in hand, we process, cleanse and identify nearly 100 percent of your end customers and resellers.
- 3. Enrich
- We then enrich your channel data with information you don’t already have including data about your end customers and channel partners.
- 4. Insight
- Your financial, sales, marketing and operations personnel access your POS and inventory data at any time by importing it into your existing systems or using our value-add offerings to generate reports, perform data analyses or model new initiatives.
- 5. Optimize
- Our value-add offerings take financial-grade data developed in the previous steps, and precisely calculates inventory balances, special pricing, sales credits, and rebates.
Channel Data Manager removes the data management worries from your channel team and IT organization, and combined with ChannelInsight’s analytics and industry leading services library of channel process solutions, provides actionable insight for use across your entire enterprise.